The Things I Wanted to Know Last Saturday, I met a man at a party. He was tall, strong—and his face was square and handsome. He worked with my boyfriend at the restaurant, and I couldn’t help but ask him questions because you can’t be thirty-five and squarely handsome and work at a shitty restaurant without having some sort of story. He said that he was a Navy Seal out of high school and after that he was a bartender in Chicago, but the hours and the party scene were “too much”.The Things I Wanted to Know
I knew that he was talking about coke.
His fiancé left him. On Sundays he took his
Down by The Lake, the Dark“Fucking wind.” Leah breathed in the tar and tainted air and wondered if there was really such a thing as knowing you were dead. She looked at Alex and tried to guess if he ever thought things like that. She knew Allie did. Then again, they had just left Allie in a private room at Simone Psychiatric, where she had tried to convince Leah that you could see God in the walls. And it was shit like that that made Leah smoke by the Lake for hours, thinking about nothing. She got used to it, though. Even enjoyed it. There was some prestige, some heroic sympathy that came with having a sister like Allie, a sistDown by The Lake, the Dark
ReignFall now, and deny it, but bring the fall. To tell is to die, and to die you strive, For the reign of Phantom Thin Wall.Reign
Close your eyes, dear, for you are the doll. Wear red, bare all, drink dead spirits, come alive!
Fall now, and deny it, but bring the fall.
Wear shiny things now, for the masquerade ball. In mocking civility the concubine arrives, For the reign of Phantom Thin Wall.
You aren’t marked for death, for which you call. His rape made you immortal, to your pain you revive! Fall now, and deny it, but bring the fall.
In exile th
If we...Civil ConversationI hope you find a girl with hair like mine But with a smaller nose and bigger tits. Let’s face it, sweetheart, we had nothing in Common but ourselves. Come on baby, It’s ok to remember the good times. [Wintry Georgetown sunsets, Chinese for two] No—no, don’t romanticize it.If we...Civil Conversation
We embargoed kissing for a reason. So I hope you find a girl with hair like mine But I don’t want to know about it. Because when I think about you and me I like to think of a room with two views That night, that only-one-night, we had just
Peace between us. And after th
And now I can finally read your poems, since I accidentally threw out all my papers from that class.
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I feed on your poetry like a dry sponge sucks up liquid. -crajehru
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